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« Reply #270 on: 23:13:00, 03-06-2008 » |
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supermarket mince.
Do you mean supermarket 'meat' mince, hh? hamburgers in duck fat
But then that goes for mince mince.
Oi! Back to the pulses please!  We had pizza and (veggie of course) hot dogs today - Little R's birthday request! Very mice chocolate birthday cake with chocolate fudge goo in the middle and on top.  |
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« Reply #271 on: 23:28:43, 03-06-2008 » |
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Very mice chocolate birthday cake Eeek!  Happy Birthday, Little R  |
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« Reply #273 on: 00:04:35, 04-06-2008 » |
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Very mice chocolate birthday cake Eeek!  Oops! Happy Birthday, Little R I'll pass on your birthday greeting in the morning, George.   |
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« Reply #274 on: 20:50:14, 18-06-2008 » |
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Time for a bump for the veggie thread tho I've nothing really new to report. Red lentil and spinach curry for me 2nite, with basmati, Yeo Valley fat-free yoghurt/diced cucumber and hot lime pickle. A tried and trusted combination - and also very yummy I actually had some quorn on Monday night - the 5-bean chilli that Wetherspoons do includes it, according to the menu. Choice of veggie dishes wasn't that large though. |
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« Reply #275 on: 20:56:03, 18-06-2008 » |
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I'm seeking refuge in here as I've just made the mistake of reading the What's burning? thread and I'm feeling decidedly queasy... Any seasonal veggie recipes to share here? I'm feeling uninspired these days but at the moment have the excuse of being too germy to spend long preparing food. The kids didn't object to the freezer-to-oven pizza and some freezer-to-oven Quorny things plus baked beans and sweetcorn this evening.  PS Andy - I was writing this before I saw yours! |
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« Reply #276 on: 21:11:47, 18-06-2008 » |
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My feelings entirely MJ, too much sea-food on the Burning thread. I picked up a 3-pack of mixed peppers in Tesco today, which I think was something like £1-35, then noticed that they had single peppers for 33p each!! - so I immediately replaced the 3-pack and got 2 red and 1 orange for 99p. I'm growing my own peppers, including a variety called Mini Bell, which is supposed to have lots of small fruit on it (of differing colours - tho not on the same plant ), but they're nowhere near ready yet of course.  http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/275/1I use a lot of peppers these days, far more than I ever used to - either raw or cooked. |
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« Reply #277 on: 21:45:46, 18-06-2008 » |
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Primary schools are being forced to sign up to the Healthy Eating campaign which is fine by me BUT a lot of our children come to school hungry so as well as the free fruit/veg the KS1s (plus my Y3s since they're in the same class) have at morning break they used to have a couple of digestive biscuits and/or milk if they brought snack money to school. We're not allowed to do that now. Just milk. No biscuits.(So I can't sneak myself a biccie either!)
The school fruit/veg suppliers keep letting us down so we've told the parents their kids can bring in extra fruit to eat at break time. One particularly ferocious grandma (anyone know the Giles cartoon Grandma?) was interrogating us as to which fruit the school had provided that week and when told "Tomatoes" had asked us if we were trying to poison the children as tomatoes are related to Deadly Nightshade! I was very impressed at her horticultural knowledge! But judging by the girth of her grandchildren (sadly, they are truly obese) she shovels chips into them and aren't potatoes also part of that poisonous family?!
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« Reply #278 on: 21:47:14, 18-06-2008 » |
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We're not vegetarian here, though we comprise one long-lapsed veggie, one recently lapsed veggie and one absent veggie. The recently lapsed was on kitchen duty last evening and produced a most satisfactory scone-based pizza. One of the objectives was to create a low-fat dish for the house dieter, so the scone base was a reasonable decision. There was no tomatoey layer (though I suppose there could have been) but then a cheese layer made with low-fat garlic and herb Philadelphia. The topping was spinach and onion which had been lighted sauteed in olive oil, plus selected herbs, black pepper and the like.
I sometimes think that anything that is appended as 'low-fat' will be disappointing, but it was really quite good. Out of one of those 30-minute books.
A round of applause for the cook please: she's 13. (Er, that's not me, you understand.)
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« Reply #279 on: 21:52:42, 18-06-2008 » |
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I'm glad the pizza tasted good but I have to say that I once tried low-fat garlic and herb Philadelphia.
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« Reply #280 on: 22:09:24, 18-06-2008 » |
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I suppose you could substitute a more pleasing product at this stage, MJ. (I should have known not to mention it amongst such kitchen goddesses as reside hereabouts. ) |
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« Reply #281 on: 22:22:51, 18-06-2008 » |
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Not really a veggie answer, (but being 50% veggie) but just seeing the news that gas/electricity prices are going up by 40% those of us amongst us are not fuel tanker drivers but are in low paid ordinary jobs must have that sinking feeling that our evening meals will consist of some cannellini beans and tinned tomatoes. Perhaps augmented with cheap Tesco peppers. Forget the rice and pasta, we won't be able to afford them because we don't have Unions to fight for us. My Council Tax has gone up from £70 to now £130 a month. Wales was re-banded, England wasn't because of the election, because if England had been re-banded Tony Bliar would have lost. <mutter, mutter, mutter, emoticom, bluddy English politicians. Bluddy Nu Labour, load of Blairs>
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« Reply #282 on: 22:25:26, 18-06-2008 » |
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(I should have known not to mention it amongst such kitchen goddesses as reside hereabouts. ) Indeed you should have. I may resort to foraging in the freezer and opening tins but low-fat Philadelphia on a pizza!  Actually I am impressed at your 13 year old's ingenuity  My 13 year old is an expert bread-maker (using the machine) and the latest, a wholemeal with sunflower seeds, is delicious. |
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« Reply #283 on: 22:42:07, 18-06-2008 » |
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Thank you. Your congrats will be conveyed. So sorry you're appalled at the heinous ingredient, MJ. We're currently on a downward cholesterol mission here (on doctor's orders) so she was valiant in trying to find a substitute for the hard cheese.
Good to see these youngsters keeping me out of the kitchen though. Long may the Home Econ lessons flourish.
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« Reply #284 on: 23:09:12, 18-06-2008 » |
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So sorry you're appalled at the heinous ingredient, MJ.
I'm not really, Martin! I was just winding you up! I've put dollops of Philadelphia in a tomato sauce for pasta to make it more gooey and v nice it is. I only commented on it because I tried it once in an effort to reduce my fat intake and found it disappointingly yukky. |
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